Page 14-Tuesday, July 11, 1978-The Michigan Daily Shcharansky, Ginzburg go before courts kt nued 5irom5Pagel) rejected the idea of postponing nuclear arms negotiations in protest. Vance is to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Switzerland tomorrow to try to advance a new treaty limiting nuclear arms. In New York, a Carter aide said Van- ce would carry with him a personal message from Carter to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Edward Nezvinsky, U.S. representative to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, told a rally in support of Soviet Jews that the message will make clear "the strength of our nation's concern and commitment to the freedom of these dissidents on trial." THE PROSECUTION of the 30-year- old Shcharansky, a computer expert who became a key member in the Jewish emigration movement, and the 41-year-old Ginzburg, a longtime human rights activist, follows a long Soviet campaign against dissent. The Carter administration says the fate of the two men could have an im- portant impact on East-West detente. Presidept Carter has personally cham- pioned their cause, and Vance contends they are being tried for "asserting fun- damental human rights." Two other trials also got under way yesterday, one involving Lithuanian human rights activist Viktorus Pytatkus, being tried in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the other an espionage case against a 38-year-old office worker, Anatoly Filatov. Dissident sources in Moscow said Pyatkus was delivered to the courtroom under force by four guards and refused to take part. After 90 minutes the proceedings were recessed for two days, the sources said. A COURT spokesperson reported Filatov pleaded guilty. He did not name the country Filatov allegedly spied for, but said he was recruited by a foreign intelligence service" while on a business trip to algeria in 1974 and "betrayed his country." Filatov's trial is to resume today. Shcharansky's wife, Natalia, told a news conference in Paris she believes further statements by Carter and the Congress might enable her husband to "be free and go out from Russial" Ms. Shcharansky, a resident of Israel who said she went to Paris to help mobilize world opinion on her husband's behalf, suggested that Congress pass a resolution in the case. In New York, thousands of American Jews and others gathered at a noontime rally to protest the Shcharansky trial. Three hours earlier a bomb exploded near the Manhattan offices ofathe Soviet travel agency Intourist, causing little damage and no injuries. No one'im- mediately claimed responsibility for the blast. Western reporters, diplomats, in- cluding U.S. Embassy representatives, and the defendants' comrades from the dissident movement were barred from the trials in Moscow and Kaluga. They waited outside for word from the defen- dants' relatives or court officials on what was happening. Officials say extension unlikely (Continued from Page 2) may rest on an unknown senator not yet named to fill a vacancy. That panel is expected to wait until the House com- mittee acts before holding hearings. The proposed amendment would ban discrimination on grounds of sex. Under current law, three-quarters of the 50 states must approve the proposed amendment by next March if it is to become law. Thirty-five of the 38 states necessary already have done so, although three of those have also voted to rescind their approval. WHILE congressional aides say it's almost a certainty that the proposal to extend the 1979 deadline for seven years is doomed, efforts are under way in the House to find a compromise. One possibility under discussion, said to have the grudging support of some women's leaders as well as congressional backers of the ERA, is to extend the current deadline for four years instead of seven. j A o Despite public optimism, one un- decided committee member, Rep. 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